What are chickpeas made of?

Are there any experienced shoppers who knows what this labelling actually means?

Which bit? 20% less plastic in the packaging?

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Wellā€¦ chickpeas are a type of beanā€¦ as far as I knowā€¦

this labelling tells me that they are grown in France and sold by French businessesā€¦ and that they were packed at Merville as per the map of France ā€¦

The nutriscore A tells me they are good healthwise
re the -20% plasticā€¦ this relates to the packagingā€¦

500g is the weight

someone will come on in, if Iā€™ve completely lost the plotā€¦

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As @JohnH says, packaged in Merville using 20% less packaging (than what, we are not told, unless the asterisk helps),

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Itā€™s a joke people! I presumeā€¦ā€¦.

Yes it the one where some clown says baby bird urine. Doh!

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I have often seen less fat, less sugar, less salt etc. referring to the contents but never less plastic in the packaging. I am obviously less observant than most. But I am still uncertain what it is 20% less than.

Perhaps it was originally in a 20% larger plastic bag!

I think youā€™ve hit the nail firmly on the head ā€¦

Less than the previous version of the packaging.

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Sadness, judging by how they taste.

No! Hummus and poppadoms, for a starter, are made from chickpeas.

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Let alone panisse that are a delight and dare I say better than a potato chip?

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Theyā€™re fab! I use them all the time. They make an excellent ā€˜fillerā€™ added to the vegetable stews I make to accompany whatever meat I cook, as a substitute for potatoes/pasta/rice, in an effort to fight the flab.

The g/f was for making hummus from the raw ingredients. This starts with boiling chick peas for hours. She put a large pot of them on a low simmer and set off to the shops, pausing at the pavement where a pal was coaching me on replacing the brake drums of a Citroen Dyane, me with my head in the wheel arch.

ā€œPlease turn off the gas in an hour from nowā€
ā€œNo chance, loveā€ said the pal. ā€œWe WILL forgetā€

She returned to find the roadside engineering had moved to the other side of the car

ā€œDid you turn off the gas?ā€
ā€œErrr ā€¦ no. Sorry. We forgot. We did say we wouldā€

There remained nobbut a thick layer of charcoal inā€™t bottom oā€™t pan.

Moral of that story.

1] Never ask blokes doing roadside engineering to remember anything
2] Use ready cooked chick peas to make hummus

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Pre-soak in a thermos and add a good pinch of bicarb so they cook quickly!

Is that like farinata? We had that the other night at friendsā€™: delicious, sprinkled with salt and lemon.

Those post-hippy days are long gone. I canā€™t allow myself hummus/taramosalatapate/terrine et al. To flab-makng

Itā€™s been quite ā€œbig newsā€ā€¦ everyone trying to achieve a reduction of plastic in their packaging/whatever
and certain Marques have undertaken to achieve the target of -20%m plastic one way or anotherā€¦

those Chick Peas are now packaged in ā€œwhatever mannerā€ using -20% plastic than previouslyā€¦

The amount of plastic used for a Critā€™Air sticker.

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using -20% plastic than previouslyā€¦
They shouldnā€™t be using plastic for conditioning & selling pois chiches, or a lot of other stuff, a brown paper bag would do the trick & then compost the bag.

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Is that more galette like? Panisse are chips that you dunk in indulgent things like aoli